Pavel Novaikin

Front End Team Lead

Project: "The Times" in the crypto industry

• Shipped and maintained 3 production applications serving 30k daily active users, led a full major-version upgrade of the application framework, and stood up greenfield projects end to end — tooling (ESLint, Prettier, Husky), Sentry error tracking, i18n, GTM, and Sentry/Grafana production monitoring.
• Owned engineering standards and code quality — enforcing consistent conventions, running thorough code reviews and mentoring, designing a GitHub review workflow with LLM-assisted self-review, building automated CI quality gates, and managing dependency upgrades.
• Led a team of 3 front end engineers — decomposing features into actionable tasks, tracking technical debt in Jira, shielding the team from unrealistic deadlines through transparent estimation, and conducting technical interviews.
• Drove cross-functional collaboration — improving CI/CD pipelines with DevOps, aligning API contracts with backend engineers, and agreeing on roadmap and technical trade-offs with Product and the CTO.

Senior Front End Developer

Project: "The Times" in the crypto industry

• Delivered several key sections of the company's main website, improving overall structure and UX consistency.
• Resolved front end bugs across multiple modules, improving overall product stability.
• Contributed to migrating the application to a newer major framework version, ensuring a smooth, backward-compatible transition.
• Investigated and optimized how data is created, processed, stored, and presented to users, reducing load times by 20%.
• Integrated 5 third-party APIs and 20+ partner widgets into the core platform.
• Partnered with clients and stakeholders to clarify requirements and align on technical solutions.
• Stepped up to lead the front end team during the lead's absence.

Senior Front End Developer

• Added and refined features for the company's core product — the user's personal dashboard, used by around 20,000 customers.
• Created and evolved a new version of the company's presentation website — a single-page app spanning 5 core pages and 12 additional pages with nested hierarchies, covering the service's key features and benefits.
• Built a standalone company blog as a separate project, integrating Strapi as a CMS for content updates.

Fullstack Developer

Worked on several projects of different scales and directions:

• Developed 2 mobile applications for Android and iOS using NativeScript with the Angular framework.
• Created the front end of a help-desk system.
• Engineered and maintained an isomorphic web application from scratch on Nuxt.js.
• Implemented an authorization mechanism based on Keycloak.js.

Front End Team Lead

Project: FinTech project

• Led a front end team of 6 — decomposing and supervising tasks, running daily scrums, mentoring junior developers, and interviewing candidates.
• Owned the tech stack and engineering quality — selecting technologies, introducing code review, and managing incidents and overall application health.
• Migrated the project from JavaScript to TypeScript, eliminating a large class of weak-typing errors.
• Refactored the codebase toward SOLID principles — splitting oversized super-classes into small, focused ones and extracting reusable components and modules.
• Optimized the application, significantly reducing CPU load on the client side.
• Designed and organized a middleware API and automated the deployment process (Bamboo).

Front End Developer

Project: A big sports portal/custom CRM for one huge world sports association.

• Designed and developed the front end module I was responsible for, working with large, scalable web systems.
• Built a stable WebSocket connection between the front end and middleware for real-time data.
• Engineered the front end of an email service and a smart layer bridging the server and client.
• Worked autonomously and collaborated remotely with managers in Germany, gathering requirements directly from the client.

Front End Developer

Project: An ambitious service which is able to choose a tourist program in several countries fit for your budget.

• Crafted the front end of the service from pixel-perfect designs.
• Authored many custom Angular components.
• Tested every new feature at the end of each sprint.